Brett Crawford

Brett Crawford

Assistant Professor

Biography

Brett Crawford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D in Management and Organizations from the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School and his MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Brett’s research explores how organizations shape and reshape social and institutional meaning over time. He is particularly interested in questions relating to the natural environment and taboo issues.

Prior to coming to Purdue, Brett was on the faculty at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, he was also the Graduate Programs Coordinator at the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology. Brett has also worked as a Lecturer of Public Policy and Administration at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.

Brett’s research has appeared in Social Science & Medicine, Management & Organizational History, and the Journal of Organizational Ethnography. His work has also been featured in a number of media outlets including NPR. Brett is a member of the Academy of Management, American Sociological Association, Trout Unlimited and Anglers of the Au Sable. He is a conservationist at heart and when not playing zone defense over his three kids with his wife, finds exploring remote rivers with a fly rod to be therapeutic. His dream is to run the Grand Canyon in a dory.

Lin, K.; Anspach, R.; Crawford, B.; Parnami, S.; Fuhrel-Forbis, A. & De Vries, R. (2014). What must I do to succeed?: Narratives from the US Premedical Experience, Social Science and Medicine, 119: 98-105.

“Towards a Process Theory of Propagating Interests and Institutional Entrepreneurship: Change in a Chamber of Commerce”. B. Crawford & J. Branch, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, San Antonio, 2011.